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HARTFORD — A committee failed to vote Monday to force the UConn Foundation to be subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act — effectively killing the bill. The government administration and elections committee held a hearing on the bill recently, but it was not placed on the agenda Monday by the Democratic-controlled committee. Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury, made a motion to place the item on the agenda and force a vote on the bill, which the foundation has strongly opposed. McLachlan said that bill "has run into a buzz saw of opposition for all the wrong reasons.'' Foundation officials have testified that the organization should not be...

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HARTFORD — A committee failed to vote Monday to force the UConn Foundation to be subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act — effectively killing the bill.
The government administration and elections committee held a hearing on the bill...

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Six of the school...

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Keeping in mind the major protests that have arisen from the deaths of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., a key legislative committee voted Thursday to advance a bill calling for a pilot program testing body cameras on police...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — State legislators are urging the University of Connecticut Foundation and open government advocates to find common ground on opening the state university's fundraising organization to freedom-of-information rules.
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HARTFORD - The longrunning clash over the transparency of the University of Connecticut Foundation continued Monday as some lawmakers pushed for the foundation to be subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act.
Top UConn officials testified that...

1. Should foundations established by public higher education institutions, like The UConn Foundation, be governed as a public agency, bound by the Freedom of Information Act? A bill before the government administration and elections committee would...

A state with the nickname of Corrupticut should think hard about the wisdom of leaving entirely up to police whether to release important arrest records while a prosecution is pending.
A 2014 state Supreme Court ruling allows police to withhold all but...

On Sunday we welcome the beginning of Sunshine Week, when access to public information is celebrated. Unfortunately, though we live in an information age, the Freedom of Information Act and the public's access to documents is under siege.
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She burned the tapes.
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The head of the state's new government accountability office in recent days ordered the seizure of a computer from the state's elections enforcement agency — a move that a top election enforcement official calls a "major security breach" because...

Lawmakers, a word: Don't succumb to the siren song of secrecy piped by representatives of the University of Connecticut Foundation at a hearing before the General Assembly's higher education committee Thursday.
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Representatives of the University of Connecticut Foundation made an impassioned argument at a legislative hearing Thursday that any law forcing them to open their records to the public — even if donors' name are excluded — would impede their efforts to...

The cause of open government in Connecticut has taken extraordinarily hard knocks of late, undermining this state's once-sterling reputation nationally for valuing openness and promoting the free flow of information. One of the hardest was a disappointing...

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Under a little-noticed state law passed in 2005 to keep pace with rapidly advancing telecommunication technology, police departments in Connecticut have obtained at least 13,500 court orders to gain access to citizens' cellphone records without meeting...